Sentences with phrase «church places on it»

To preach on the subject and on the sins of the day during the penitential seasons, even increasing the available times for confession as a witness to the value the Church places on it can have surprising effects.

The demands a small church places on its membership are high indeed, and may seem at first glance to have little to do with Christian love and discipline.

Not exact matches

From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

The church provides volunteers three meals a day and a place to stay while they are working on clean - up and rebuilding efforts in Houston.

These discussions about compatibility have their place, but if we spend all our time justifying which side of the gender equality debate we're on, the conversation will never truly progress and the Church will never become the advocate for women it could be.

The followers (note I did call them Christians) would just as soon vomit on these news places that broadcast the corrupt «perfect» church.

Under canon law, the Patriarch had to be buried within four days, but church and state negotiators failed to agree on his burial place.

Tax these enormous, ornate, arrogant churches, mosques, synagogues as the commercial real estate they are and finally let them approach offsetting the horrendously inordinate burden they place on the infrastructure and staffing of our strapped communities.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

This religious event being placed on - base is wrong and a horrible violation of the separation of church and state.

Not all believers share the same interpretation of the Bible or theology and haven't since the beginning of the church — that is not what binds us together and it's not our place to pass judgement on someone else's standing with God — only He can do that.

Church is not a supposed a coffee shop or a nightclub with «edgy music,» its a place to reflect and meditate on your life, and to converse with God.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

Even today, the most segregated place in Alabama is any given church on any given Sunday.

Mr Kwong told his diocesan newspaper The Echo: «Placing a cross on top of a church is a common practice in Christianity.

In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.

But that sort of behavior goes on in WAY too many churches for the case to be made that church community is the only place to live out a love for God in service with and for others.

Those people who are not that have no place on a church staff.

Early Popes (and other Christian Church leaders) placed the blame on the Jews for the execution of Jesus.

In any event, I was suprised when the church I was attending here in Ontario held a discussion on women in ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the US.

The Church ought to be the most imaginative place on the planet.

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, an event that has been in preparation for more than half a century, will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete on June 19 - 26, 2016.

«While «ethnic» churches continue to cater to Latino immigrants, white, non-Latino Catholics now place less emphasis on the importance of the Church,» the UNL study says.

Our prayer (and the prayer of the folks at Mars Hill) is that in the months and years ahead, people will remember what took place on «Porn Sunday» and that it is OK to say the word «porn» at church.

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

I'm working on an article where I'm actually in a place of appreciating having once gone to church.

If it is to a place that some call «church» on Sunday morning, fine!

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

Christian churches spend millions on travel to places that are 95 % Catholic (think Mexico & Costa Rica) because despite the fact that these people have known and prayed to Jesus their whole lives, they still aren't going to heaven because they didn't say the magic «Jesus save me» chant.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

That might be an accurate portrayal of many church leaders, but it's true to say that there is little place on screen for charismatic, spirit - filled, visionary leaders who are out to change the world.

I for one hope for a little evolution is on our way because I think there is a place for churches in our future.

This was demonstrated vividly in the numerous church splits that I endured (including one that placed my father and I on opposite sides, a rift that still is not fully healed).

But the goal was to build a church that would be a beacon for the world, and a holy place where the faithful can go to ease our burdens, get fueled up on God's word so we can go out into «our mission field.»

In addition to my earlier comment I will say that I will be surprised if any of the mega church pastors have any comment on the Jonestown massacre that took place on November 18, 1978.

Mega churches are perfect places to put on a good show of being a follower of Jesus.

These basic requirements placed on the church leadership require that the church must have a membership role.

I think Catholic university presidents have a splendid opportunity to demonstrate the high priority we place on being in communion with the larger Church.

The Church had welcomed the uncatechized, counting on a «natural» churching to take place later, as if Christian identity would come automatically.

One of the many places to see this is Paul's inspired instructions to Timothy on what to focus on in his church.

(Cotton was placed on leave by his current church in Austin, Texas following the report.)

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

Many Christians that I know place their focus on being part of a church, replacing the true relationship with one associated in membership or through the person in the pulpit.

It is appropriate for a German to be profound on Church music, and, like many of us, he can not explain why the clear order of the Second Vatican Council on music has been turned on its head: «Gregorian chant should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

But we can be sure of this: Every time Christians choose to condemn a sexual predator on «the left» or in «the media» while defending the sexual predators in their own communities, victims of sexual assault will justifiably conclude that there is no safe place for them in the Church.

By placing a priority on the Kingdom ways, the entire church will receive the favour, we only stand to benefit and to be blessed from a richer tapestry of leadership, a vision for leadership that includes the whole people of God.

That is not just a moral demand placed on the church; it is the criterion of ecclesiality.

Regarding the comment you made on September 12 about noticing the pathologies outside a church setting — the first place I encountered narcissistic personality was in a one - two punch in the form of a self - professed feminist, Roman Catholic department chair.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.